The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-04
A PARTY OF YOUNG FOLKS in Pleasant

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married pair to "bell" them, as the
custom is there. Awakened by the jung
ling of many bells, the bride and groom
arose and entered into the fun heartily
To add to the noise, the bride and
another young woman ran out and began
to pull violently on the rope of the farm
bell hanging in frame back of the
house. They jerked SO hard that the
bell slipped from It's place and fill, strik.
ing the bride on the head and fracturinc
her skull.
A NEVADA newspaper says that citi-
zen recently saw two Piute bucks dig a
hole in snow bank, get into it, and
wrap themselves in a single blanket,
preparatory to a nights rest. III tho
morning he saw no 81 GINS of the Indians,
hut e mound of snow marked the spot
where they went to bed. He was sure
that they had frozen during the cold
night, and prepared to dig out the
bodies but the first thrust of the shovel
brought the bucks to their feet, with
grunts Of disgust. Instead of being
frozen, they were moist with perspira-
ton.
A CHICAGO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER is
reported as saying that drunmers for
stove houses now carry a sample of any
particularly fine parlOr stove that they
may he selling. He says: This is
more satisfactory to the merchants than
buying from photographs, but it's no
fun for the boys to carry stoves from
town to town, l tell You, particularly
when it is considered that their orders
are to put fires in the stoves SO that GUS
toners can see Just how the thing works.
Many time have / seen hot stoves
lifted into baggage ears to be carried
from one town to another.
A YOUNG man of Carbonate, Dakota,
thought that he'd be smart, and so began
n correspondence with a foolish young
woman in the East whom he had never
seen. She wanted his photograph, and
he sent her that of hotel-keeper of the
place. She was 50 pleased with it that
she agreed to 90 to Dakota and marry
her correspondent. She started alone
and arrived at Carbonate the other day;
but the young man had fled. The pa
per that reports the occurrence says;
"The situation is very embarrassing for
the lady. The hotel man would marry
her were he not engaged to another girl. "
A REPORTER of the Louisville Courier
Journal asked Congressman Bragg
what he meaaafby the expression "coffee
COOLER" used in his speech against the
vetoed pension bill. eff YOU get Forbes
picture of the war;" said Mr.. Bragg,
"you will see picture of the regiments
as they move into action. On the side
of the road, under cedar copse, there
are three soldiers squatted down holding
their coffee i'll cups, cooling it. And
there they remain until after the battle ;
and then rejoin their regiments. These
fellows were features in every regiment.
and was surprised at the faithfulncss
of Forbes's dclincation of these skulk-
ers."
AT the time of the recent strike of
the tobacco workers in factory in Jer-
sey City there were two pet cats i'll the
factory which were insepamble. One
of them went out with the strikers, but
the other remained in the factory. and
when the strike was over the striking
cat went back with the hands. 1t re-
fused, however, to associate with the
faithful cat. The two met 10y accident
Yesterday on one of the floors Of the
factory, and the cat that went out
pitched into the other cat and thisshed
it. Now the victorious cat travels about
the factory with a red, white, and blne
ribbon around its neck, placed there by
its Knights of Labor admirers.
SAMUEL PAsCo of McConnel's, Ga,
is one of the wealthiest farmers of that
section and keeps much money in his
house. The other morning he am
nounced that burglars had entered the
house in the night, chloroformed him,